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Short Bull, -1923

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Personal name headingShort Bull, -1923
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Variant(s)Ptecela, Tatanka, -1923
Tatanka Ptecela, -1923
Short Bull, -1915
Associated countryUnited States
Death date1923-07-06
Place of deathWanblee (S.D.)
Found inLOT 3076-11, no. 3605: Indian chiefs and U.S. officials.... [graphic] 1891 : photograph (Short Bull)
Dockstader, F.J. Great North American Indians, 1977: p. 265 (Short Bull, ca. 1845-1915, Brulé Sioux medicine man who was an advocate of the Ghost Dance religion among the Sioux; was among a number of Sioux who, following the massacre at Wounded Knee, joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show)
Johansen & Grinde. The Ency. of Native Amer. Biog., 1997: p. 350 (Short Bull, Brulé Sioux, c. 1846-1915)
McCoy, Ronald. Short Bull, Lakota visionary, historian and artist, c1992: p. 55 (Short Bull; Tatanka Ptecela; probably born in Nebraska's Niobrara River country; year of birth not known and has been given variously as 1845 and 1852, though 1847 may be closer to the mark) p. 61 (various death dates including 1915 and 1923; actually, Short Bull lived somewhat longer; he was interviewed in 1924 and photographed as late as Aug. 1933; actual year of Short Bull's death remains in doubt) p. 62 (confused with Grant Short Bull who was killed in an automobile accident on Aug. 20, 1935, and who served with U.S. Army, first enlisting in 1877)
Wikipedia, June 5, 2011 (Arnold Short Bull; Tatanka Ptecela; c. 1845-1923; member of the Sichangu (Brulé); instrumental in bringing the Ghost Dance movement to reservations)
Email from Thomas Short Bull, May 15, 2018 (Short Bull's probate records shows that he died on July 6, 1923 in the community of Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Reservation)
Not found inHoxie, F. Ency. of North Amer. Indians, 1996.